Eleven cocoa farming communities in the Wassa Amenfi West District in the Western region have drawn up unity action plans depicting their various needs to facilitate the social, economic and environmental transformation of their respective communities.

They are meant to develop the capacities of the farming communities.

The communities are Juantokrom, Akokofe, Jaman, Essakrom, Nkwantanum, Nsabrekwa, Nyame Nnae, Takyikrom, Wiredukrom, Sewayor and Bokakore.

The action plans were drawn up after dialogue and sensitization meeting conducted by Codesult Network, a local non-governmental organization and community engagement partners for Mars Partnership for African Cocoa Commmunities of Tomorrow (iMPACT) project.

The iMPACT project’s technical partners include the German Development Co-operation (GTZ), Africare, the International Foundation for Education and Self-Help (IFFES), Sustainable Tree Crops Programme (STCP), the International Coocoa Initiative (ICI) and Rainforest Alliance (RA).

Each of the technical partners has a specific role to play for the effective execution of the community action plans.

An exhibition has been organized at Asankragwa to showcase the developmental change that has come about as a result of a strategic partnership initiated process starting with the dialogue and sensitisation .

Speaking at the exhibition, the Executive Director of Codesult Network, Mr Robert Obiri Yeboah said eleven hand-dug wells had been constructed for the communities.

He said community health volunteers had been trained to identify basic illnesses in the communities and support the various community health nurses.

He added that 24,000 tree seedlings of different species had been supplied to them.

He noted that the cocoa farmers had bee trained in integrated crop and pest management.

According to him, the project had changed the development face of the 11 communities.

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